"There's going to be times when it's going to be painful, no two ways around that," said James Beauchamp, president of the Midland Odessa Transportation Alliance, which advocates for more state road money for the Permian Basin.

Authorities in the Midland and Odessa area plan to spend about $1.3 million a year in state funding for new projects besides regular maintenance, said James Beauchamp, president of Motran Alliance.
The region needs as much as $500 million, both Beauchamp and Redford said.

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Improvements that would help include completing highway loops around the two cities and adding signals and overpasses at more intersections such as Yukon Road and Loop 338, Beauchamp said.